"sober up" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-sober up.wav Forms: sobers up [present, singular, third-person], sobering up [participle, present], sobered up [participle, past], sobered up [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} sober up (third-person singular simple present sobers up, present participle sobering up, simple past and past participle sobered up)
  1. To become sober; to cause to become sober (usually in terms of alcohol or drugs; sometimes figuratively). Categories (topical): Alcoholism, Drinking Translations (to become sober): ἐκνήφω (eknḗphō) (Ancient Greek), صَحَا (ṣaḥā) (Arabic), desembriagar-se (Catalan), 醉醒 (zuìxǐng) (Chinese Mandarin), 醒酒 (xǐngjiǔ) (Chinese Mandarin), vystřízlivět (Czech), ontnuchteren (Dutch), malebriiĝi (Esperanto), selvitä (Finnish), se dégriser (French), se désenivrer (French), ausnüchtern (German), ξεμεθώ (xemethó) (Greek), הִתְפַּכֵּחַ (hitpakkéaḥ) (Hebrew), kijózanodik (Hungarian), desebrieskar (Ido), siityä (Ingrian), tar as meisce (Irish), 酔いが覚める (yoi-ga sameru) (alt: よいがさめる) (Japanese), trzeźwieć [imperfective] (Polish), wytrzeźwieć [perfective] (Polish), desembriagar-se (Portuguese), трезве́ть (trezvétʹ) [imperfective] (Russian), отрезве́ть (otrezvétʹ) [perfective] (Russian), desemborrachar (Spanish), desemborracharse (Spanish), desembriagar (Spanish), desembriagarse (Spanish), nyktra till (Swedish), ayılmak (Turkish), sobri (Welsh)

Inflected forms

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          "sense": "to become sober",
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          "sense": "to become sober",
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          "sense": "to become sober",
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          "sense": "to become sober",
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          "alt": "よいがさめる",
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          "roman": "yoi-ga sameru",
          "sense": "to become sober",
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          "sense": "to become sober",
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          "sense": "to become sober",
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          "sense": "to become sober",
          "word": "desembriagar-se"
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          "roman": "trezvétʹ",
          "sense": "to become sober",
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          "word": "трезве́ть"
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          "lang": "Turkish",
          "sense": "to become sober",
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          "sense": "to become sober",
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      "sense": "to become sober",
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      "sense": "to become sober",
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      "sense": "to become sober",
      "word": "desembriagar-se"
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      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "trezvétʹ",
      "sense": "to become sober",
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      "roman": "otrezvétʹ",
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      "sense": "to become sober",
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      "sense": "to become sober",
      "word": "ayılmak"
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.